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What to see and do in Cabezarados

What to see and do in Cabezarados (Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real): 10 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 2 Nature · 3 Activities · 1 Curiosities

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What to see and do in Cabezarados

Cabezarados
Village
Municipality of the comarca of Valle de Alcudia, in the province of Ciudad Real, framed by the ranges of El Castellar and Sierra Gorda between the Campo de Calatrava and the Valle de Alcudia, which preserves a fifteenth-century rollo, the jurisdictional column that was the symbol of its own jurisdiction, restored in 1982. In its district lay the lead mines of San Quintín, worked by the Sociedad Minero Metalúrgica de Peñarroya, whose settlement came to exceed the village itself in population and was left abandoned after the closure, leaving settling ponds that form greyish dunes.
Church of San Juan Bautista
Monument
A 15th-century parish church, the main religious building of the town.
Jurisdictional Pillar of Cabezarados
Monument
A 15th-century pillar of justice, the symbol of the town's own jurisdiction. It was restored in 1982 after the recovery of its pieces, which had been scattered around the village.
Mines of San Quintín
Monument
The Minas de San Quintín (San Quintín Mines) are a mining site in Cabezarados and Villamayor de Calatrava, in the Valle de Alcudia (Ciudad Real), devoted to the extraction of lead and zinc through three mines: San Froilán, Don Raimundo and San Matías. Already worked before the Roman conquest, it was reactivated from the mid-16th century and passed at the start of the 17th century to the Fúcar (Fugger) family. Its peak came between 1884 and 1934 with the Sociedad Minera y Metalúrgica de Peñarroya, a French company that introduced pneumatic drilling — in 1911 more than 30,000 tonnes of galena were extracted — and built a settlement in Cabezarados of up to 1,406 inhabitants, with schools, health care and a pharmacy. It still holds decantation ponds that form greyish dunes, put back into use in 1973 to wash ore from the spoil heaps.
Cave of el Moro
Nature
A cave in the municipal district that preserves a stone with inscriptions, evidence of ancient settlement in the area.
Sierras of El Castellar and Sierra Gorda
Nature
The Sierra del Castellar and Sierra Gorda are quartzite hills that frame the municipal area of Cabezarados (Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real) between the Campo de Calatrava and the Valle de Alcudia, covered with holm oak woods and scrubland. A watchtower and a fortified settlement once stood on them, of which nothing remains standing today.
The vanished mining settlement
Curiosity
The settlement of San Quintín came to outstrip Cabezarados itself in population and had services of its own, but it was left abandoned after the mine closed, becoming one of the most singular industrial ghost towns in the province.
Pilgrimage of Santa Quiteria
Activity
The Romería de Santa Quiteria (Santa Quiteria pilgrimage) is one of the traditional dates on the festive calendar of Cabezarados. It is held every year on 22 May, as part of the town's cycle of spring festivals.
Festivities of San Pantaleón de Cabezarados
Activity
Festival of the town's patron saint, with religious ceremonies and popular festivities. San Pantaleón, the officially declared patron saint of Cabezarados, in the Valle de Alcudia, is celebrated on 27 July.
Festival of Nuestra Señora de Finibusterre
Activity
The feast of Nuestra Señora de Finibusterre, in Cabezarados (Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real), is held on 23 August in honour of the officially declared patron saint of the municipality, an uncommon invocation, with a procession and festive events.